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Christchurch, NZ

Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Advisory Board Member & Strategic Business Advisor to start-up providing solutions to pre-hospital emergency agencies

Christchurch, New Zealand

Working with organisations, mid-sized to just starting, to deliver business strategy, business structure & improvement projects, marketing understanding, Product, Go-To-Market strategy, and digitisation of associated business systems.This includes rolling up the sleeves to execute on the plans, whether it is implementing marketing in “traditional”.

Christchurch, New Zealand

Providing mentoring in business strategy and marketing to New Zealand Business Owners

Christchurch

Led global marketing functionAchievements:- Provided leadership and coordination throughout the business- Developed measurable customer funnel flow for the first time- Clarified Brand Hierarchy - update provided a consistent brand experience- Led business understanding of market structure, attractiveness of sub-segments, focus sub-segments, go-to market.

Christchurch

Achievements:- Introduced product portfolio backlog to manage development priorities- Introduced new product portfolio, based on Smart-Devices to fill gap in portfolio and markets- Commenced transition of product portfolio to SaaS business model- Enabled sales of new product in target markets - Led introduction of cross-functional teamwork in engineering.

Responsibility for:- Leading the public safety market vertical and business strategy development- Leading the P25 communication system business strategy.- Leading the development and execution of Go To Market (GTM) strategies - Sales enablement- Defining and leading the development of new Public Safety Solutions, taking the solutions to market, and driving.

Responsibility as one of a team of trustees who:- provide Governance and oversight of the Staff Superannuation Fund- regularly review the performance of fund investment managers

Responsibility for staff management of a team consisting of:-50 staff-Software engineers and technicians-Hardware support engineers and technicians-Mechanical support engineers -Requirements analysts.Responsibility for introducing a new requirements methodology, including:-leadership of implementation team-organisational change management-defining.

Human Resources consultancy, in performance management, for large technology company.

-Member of the HumanWare NZ senior management team-Leadership and management of the Low-Vision Business Unit.-Responsibility for business unit revenues > NZD10m, R&D budget > NZD2m and operating budget > NZD1m.-Led the development and implementation of product strategy for the business unit.-Led and managed a team of marketing and engineering professionals.

Responsible for management of Low-Vision portfolio of products. This included:- Developing product strategies and portfolios for various time horizons- Defining new products, leading their development, and taking them to market- Developing new product business cases. - Determining inter-company & market pricing- Preparing marketing collateral- Global.

Wellington, New Zealand

Private consultancy to FRST, providing investment advice.- Member Manufacturing Advisory Group - Responsible for assessing applications and making recommendations to the FRST board on the NZ government’s investment in manufacturing research and development.

Responsibilities included- Management of a portfolio of internet software and hardware products- End to end product marketing including product strategy, product definition, collateral development, sales enablement, life-cycle management, and revenue optimisationSuccesses- Introduced a financial and market based product portfolio management approach- ADSL.

Responsibilities included:- Investment management in the Medical & Health, Information Technology, Communications and Manufacturing Sectors (>$15m pa). - Developing and implementing investment strategies for each of these portfolios- Private and public sector relationship management.Successes included:- Changing investment approach within organisation, to.

Business development, marketing and engineering consultancy services. Engineering, system & product development consultancy services provided to companies such as Fletcher Challenge Forests Ltd and T L Jones Ltd.Successes included:- Built a successful consulting business (Revenues >$400k pa)- Developed an award winning system for Fletcher Challenge Forests.

Development of medical instrumentation and patented techniques to measure oxygen saturation of the brain during open heart surgery and labor.Instruments used during labor at University College Hospital and during open heart surgery at Great Ormond St Hospital.

General Manager Program

Master Mgt (Distinction), Management

Post Grad Dip Bus Admin, Management

Phd, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

PhD in image & biomedical signal processing

Be 1 Hons, Electrical & Electronic Engineering